The ABC of taxation

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Identifikator:: 1010741608

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-21094

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin

Title:: The ABC of taxation

Edition:: Fourth edition specially revised

Place of publication:: Garden City, New York

Publisher:: Doubleday, Page & Company

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (236 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. Other essays and addresses

Collection:: Economics Books

JUSTICE OF THE SINGLE TAX 115 been so often abused. The single tax offers itself as a means of correcting this abuse. The Self-operating Social Law We ask you to look with us until you see, as we think we see, in ground rent the self-operating law for the social system, something that will, if unobstructed, tend to hold in just equilibrium the conflicting factors of land, labour, and capital, The particular factor in our reform which we would press upon your attention, because generally least understood, is the nature of ground rent. While land and wealth (or other wealth) have no feature in com mon, taxes and ground rent appear to us to have close resemblance in every feature. Taxes are the cause, ground rent is the effect. Taxes are the fertilizer, ground rent is the crop. Where there are no taxes, there is no ground rent. Where taxes are scanty, ground rent is scanty. Where taxes are abundant, ground rent is abundant. The ground rent of a com munity is, roughly speaking, one-half of it the result of public expenditure and one-half the result of quasi public and private expenditure; but all taxes (public expenditure) are transmuted into ground rent, a change of name without a change of nature. The single tax, we claim, is absolutely just and equitable, because it gives to every man equal (not joint) access to the land; because it exacts tribute from every man in proportion to his use of the land; because it leaves untouched the wealth which labour creates; taxes for the public use only a value of its own creation upon land of God’s creation, giving full value received ip the privilege of exclusive possession and hence is

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